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January 20, 2000 Pacific Ocean Showing Signs of Major Shifts in the Climate Forum Join a Discussion on Global Warming By WILLIAM K. STEVENS hanges in the Pacific Ocean are making it more likely that winter weather in much of the United States will exhibit unusual warmth alternating with sharp cold, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported yesterday. The ...

August 22, 2000 Simple Method Found to Vastly Increase Crop Yields By CAROL KAESUK YOON Oregon State University Simply planting different varieties of rice in the same field drastically reduces losses to blast, a fungal disease afflicting these plants. Related Article Genetically Modified Food Forum Join a Discussion on Genetically Engineered Food n a stunning new result from what has become one ...

August 24, 2000 Texas Takes Step on Warming; Some See Shift in Bush's Position By ANDREW C. REVKIN THE 2000 CAMPAIGN Issue in Depth The 2000 Campaign: White House The New York Times on the Web Politics Forum Do party conventions influence voters' choices Related Sites These sites are not part of The New York Times on the Web, and The Times has no control over their content or availability.

July 29, 2000 Arctic Shortcut Worries Canadians By JAMES BROOKE Related Articles The Natural World: Environment The Natural World: Wildlife Science/Health Chart Dwindling Sea Ice in the Arctic Offsite Resource U.S. National Assessment: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change Forum Join a Discussion on The Environment The New York Times UKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories -- In ...

August 2, 2000 U.S. Proposes New Strategy to Fight Global Warming By ANDREW C. REVKIN Related Articles The Natural World: Global Warming ADD YOUR THOUGHTS Are You Worried How concerned are you about global warming Do you think new initiatives with farms and forests will reduce greenhouse gases Add your thoughts in Abuzz. Or ask your own question about International News. reparing for renewed ...

July 28, 2000 New Greenhouse Gas Identified, Potent and Rare (but Expanding) By ANDREW C. REVKIN Related Articles The Natural World: Global Warming Forum Join a Discussion on The Environment cientists have found rising concentrations of a newly identified gas in the air that traps heat more effectively than all other known greenhouse gases, the dozens of compounds released by industry and the ...

In a letter sent to four Senate Republicans on March 13, President Bush reversed a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

The Bush administration plans to withdraw from the 1997 Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions, EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman told reporters on March 27.

July 20, 2000 PICHER JOURNAL Waste From Old Mines Leaves Piles of Problems By ROSS MILLOY Ruth Fremson/ The New York Times Piles of leftover mining material known as chat tower above Picher in northeastern Oklahoma. One resident of the town, Doris Smith, above, said that workers created problems while trying to clean up her property. ICHER, Okla., July 20 -- The problem is chat. Not the Internet ...

August 13, 2000 ON THE TRAIL Gore, Invoking Spirit of 'Silent Spring' Author, Talks of Defending Environment By DAVID BARSTOW THE 2000 CAMPAIGN Issue in Depth The 2000 Campaign: Democratic National Convention The 2000 Campaign: White House The New York Times on the Web Politics Forum Join a Discussion on Election 2000 Related Sites These sites are not part of The New York Times on the Web, and ...

August 11, 2000 U.S. Acts to Tighten Protection of Wetlands By DOUGLAS JEHL Related Articles The Natural World: Environment The New York Times on the Web: Science/Health Forum Join a Discussion on Science in the News ASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The Clinton administration today proposed new rules to protect environmentally sensitive wetlands from development, a response to what administration officials ...

August 22, 2000 U.S. Weighs a Plan to Enhance Forests' Resistance to Fires By DOUGLAS JEHL Jeff Topping for The New York Times A fire in the Kaibab National Forest in June largely spared a 90-acre triangular area that had been thinned. Related Article 2 Forest Fires Go Unchecked in California Jeff Topping for The New York Times A crew working to thin Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Ariz.

August 25, 2000 Alaska Warming Up to Carter After 20 Years By TIMOTHY EGAN The Associated Press Former President Jimmy Carter spoke this week in Anchorage. NCHORAGE, Aug. 24 -- On a visit Wednesday to the state where his legacy is larger than that of anyone since the man who bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre, former President Jimmy Carter again had to pass through a knot of people ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency issued a moratorium on December 14, 2001, precluding the consideration of pesticides on human beings. The agency asked the National Academy of Sciences to review the ethics and usefulness of testing on human volunteers.

International negotiators representing more than 160 nations concluded an agreement on November 11 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

On January 22, 2001 an international group of hundreds of scientists issued a report predicting that Earth's average temperature will rise as much as 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years.

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The Bush administration announced on May 29 that it would uphold a Clinton administration regulation reducing air pollutants from older power plants and industrial facilities that cause excessive smog in national parks.

The Bush administration announced on April 18 that it would retain a Clinton administration regulation imposing tougher lead emission reporting requirements for industrial facilities.

In a unanimous decision issued on February 27, the Supreme Court upheld authority delegated to the Environmental Protection Agency by the 1970 Clean Air Act to set strict clean air standards for soot and ground level ozone without regard to economic cost.

August 8, 2000 Logging's Shift South Brings Concern on Oversight By DOUGLAS JEHL Chris Berkey for The New York Times Critics have pointed to clear-clearing operations like this one in Humphreys County, Tenn., as a reason for their concerns about logging. Forum Join a Discussion on The Environment Chris Berkey for The New York Times Above, hardwood trees were delivered to a lumber mill in North ...

August 1, 2000 Pact Is Reached to Save a Rich Tropical Forest By ANDREW C. REVKIN Dennis DeMello/ Wildlife Conservation Society A deal opening land to loggers will protect 1, 900 square miles of tropical rain forest in Gabon. Biologists see it as a victory for large mammals like the mandrill. Related Articles The Natural World: Wildlife The Natural World: Environment Science/Health Maps ...

December 7, 1999 Sprawl Quickens Its Attack on Forests Forum Join a Discussion on The Environment By WILLIAM K. STEVENS espite some progress in conservation, the nation's privately held cropland, forests, soil and wetlands continue to give way to development and erosion, the United States Department of Agriculture is reporting today. One of the most striking findings of the agency's natural ...

August 7, 2000 PUBLIC LIVES Arranging Environmental Groups' 'Corporate' Marriage By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. Susana Raab for The New York Times John Passacantando, the new leader of Greenpeace U.S.A.. ASHINGTON -- It's not so odd that a graduate of the 80's with a master's degree in economics and some supply-side credentials should now find himself negotiating a big merger. But in this case, the ...

July 25, 2000 THE VICE PRESIDENT Environmentalist Gore Gives Salve to Labor By JAMES DAO Agence France-Presse Visiting construction workers in Cleveland, Al Gore got one to play him a tune on Monday. He liked it, but that was not his only reason for cheer: earlier he received the Sierra Club's endorsement for president. THE 2000 CAMPAIGN Related Articles The 2000 Campaign: Labor Policy Positions ...

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July 28, 2000 7 States in West Reach Outline on Sharing of the Colorado River By TODD S. PURDUM OS ANGELES, July 27 -- California and the six other Western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have reached the outlines of an agreement that would let California gradually reduce its over-dependence on the river through extensive conservation and underground storage measures during the ...

The EPA has reversed a preliminary decision it made in March to overturn a Clinton era regulation tightening arsenic standards for drinking water.

August 12, 2000 As Western Wildfires Rage, Assessing Blame Becomes a Central Issue By DOUGLAS JEHL with ROSS E. MILLOY The Associated Press Wildfires are continuing to burn in several states in the West. Soldiers from Fort Hood, Tex., arrived on a Blackhawk helicopter this week to fight the Burgdorf Junction fire, about 30 miles north of McCall, Idaho. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Wildfires ...

August 31, 2000 Cost of Fighting Fires in West Is Expected to Pass $1 Billion By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WESTERN FIRES Related Articles A Time of Fires, Fatigue, Cash and the U.S.0. (Aug. 26, 2000) Fire Forces Limits in Access to Montana Counties (Aug. 23, 2000) U.S. Weighs Plan to Limit Spread of Forest Fires (Aug. 22, 2000) 2 Forest Fires Go Unchecked in California (Aug. 22, 2000) Official Warns ...

August 13, 2000 Disaster Agency Promises Immediate Fire Aid By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Firefighters Feeling Strain Across West (August 9, 2000) Clinton Visits Idaho Site to Give Thanks and Aid (August 9, 2000) Idaho Governor Says Fires in West May Rage Till Fall (August 6, 2000) Forest Service: More Army troops, Canadians to Fight Western Fires (August 5, 2000) ...

August 17, 2000 Forest Service Is Scrambling to Find Enough Firefighters By THE NEW YORK TIMES Susana Raab for The New York Times Harry Croft is a deputy director at the United States Forest Service. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Disaster Agency Promises Immediate Fire Aid (August 13, 2000) As Western Wildfires Rage, Assessing Blame Becomes a Central Issue (August 12, 2000) Wildfires Knock Out ...

August 6, 2000 Idaho Governor Says Fires in West May Rage Till Fall By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press The Pechanga fire burned down a mountain runoff near Temecula, Calif., on Friday. Over 6, 880 acres have burned in seven days. The fire is 15 percent contained. At Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, a new fire forced the nation's largest archaeological preserve to close again, ...

August 19, 2000 Official Warns That Little Can Be Done to Stop Fires By DOUGLAS JEHL The Associated Press A giant plume of smoke rose Friday along a highway in western Montana, where wildfires have burned more than 470, 000 acres. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Disaster Agency Promises Immediate Fire Aid (August 13, 2000) As Western Wildfires Rage, Assessing Blame Becomes a Central Issue (August ...

August 10, 2000 Population Trends Heighten West's Fire Woes By ROSS E. MILLOY The Associated Press Rob Cadwallader hugged one of his 10 dogs Wednesday and gave water to another at an evacuation site in Sula, Mont. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Firefighters Feeling Strain Across West (August 9, 2000) Clinton Visits Idaho Site to Give Thanks and Aid (August 9, 2000) Idaho Governor Says Fires in ...

August 20, 2000 Why Foresters Prefer to Fight Fire With Fire By TIMOTHY EGAN United States Forest Service After the Big Burn, in 1910. Fires aren't always as bad as they look, forest experts say. EATTLE -- Exactly ninety years ago, on Aug. 20, 1910, in the choking heat of a summer without rain in the northern Rockies, the sun disappeared from the sky and a sound not unlike cannon fire began ...